Alistair, the 68 Meg resistor was waiting for me when we arrived home this afternoon. Many thanks; see post here!
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...=60832&page=14
I'll fit it shortly, making it up to the actual specified value of 68.38 Megs +/- 0.5% by adding a selected 390k resistor in series. The 100, 300 and 1,000 volt ranges do indeed read fractionally high with just 68 Megs in place.